SharePoint 2013

A quick update on my “Overview of all SharePoint 2013 updates” article. Last September I created a PDF file with an overview of all the issues fixed with the SharePoint CU updates. I updated this file with the October 2013 CU and December 2013 CU updates for SharePoint 2013 Server and SharePoint 2013 Foundation. It […]

If you want to search or disable the refinements of the “Ask Me About” property from the user profile, look for Managed property “Responsibilities“. Or the crawled property “SPS-Responsibilities”. Displaying this property in the refinements turned out not to be that helpful. Disabling it is a breeze, if you know the correct (internal) name. Regards, […]

Introduction Many posts inform you about limiting the amount of memory of the SharePoint 2013 Search component by setting the “memoryLimitMegabytes” attribute to a number higher than zero. Most of these posts were created after the SharePoint 2013 preview, contained a nasty memory-leak that consumed your server memory in no time. The problem. When you […]

I compiled a list with all the updates and fixes of the (4) SharePoint 2013 CU updates . Useful if you are wondering if certain ‘strange’ behavior is a known fixed issue. You can download the list here: http://www.amtopm.be/DL/OverviewSharePoint2013Updates.pdf To download the updates : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/jj891062.aspx

When writing search queries in C# code you sometimes get the following error. “Search has encountered a problem that prevents results from being returned. If the issue persists, please contact your administrator.” In most cases it indicates that your search schema is not correctly setup. You request certain functionality in your code but your ‘Search […]

Sometimes it is a lot handier to just update one of the dll’s in the GAC rather than go through the pain of deploying an entire SharePoint solution. In fact it’s one of the key features that makes the CKSDEV Visual Studio plugin so valuable. Not best practice, to copy directly to the GAC, but […]

The content search web part is just brilliant. Not only does it let you aggregate, filter and find content and their metadata. The new way of styling with the new display templates is a huge relieve after all the xslt horror in the SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 versions. One word of caution: I learned the hard way […]

For some reason breadcrumbs are disabled in the default SharePoint master pages. Luckily it is very easy to add them. Add breadcrumb Simply add this snippet to your master page or page layout And when loading your page again you should see something similar like this: Navigate up (breadcrumb fly-out) If you are used to SP2010 […]

Introduction If you ever had to implement some kind of visual change in SharePoint, you know that, with previous SharePoint versions, this could be a challenge. Even SharePoint 2010 is spitting out HTML that makes website designers cry. I installed SharePoint 2013 Foundation Preview this week. And I decided to take a look at the […]